Tsolakis (U. of Warwick, UK) examines processes of state restructuring in Bolivia from 1985 to 2005. He takes a historical materialist approach that focuses on state restructuring as the product of class and intra-elite struggles beyond and within the state and in response to neoliberal globalization. His central questions concern whether, how, and why processes of state transformations of liberal democratization, internationalization, and depoliticization have been internally related and mutually supportive in Bolivia and how these processes have played out in the dialectical relationships between the formation of transnational elites, social restructuring, and domestic resistance to restructuring Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)